collective advocacy by businesses to help shape ambitious, effective policy; collaborative action to share risks, costs and innovation to tackle barriers; and aligned individual action to “keep ...

Two employees of a plastics maker were fatally shot Monday morning in Cleveland, Tennessee, by an employee in the process of termination, authorities said. The two men killed at Barku Plastics were ...

A new report from a U.S. government science panel on plastics calls for more collaboration on environmental challenges, notes an "urgent" need to address microplastics and highlights "tension" over ...

A sprinkling of nanoparticles could be the solution to a problem that has long plagued plastics manufacturers – namely, how do you make a material that is both strong, tough and easy to work with?

Ms. Chaudhuri is a journalist in London and the author of the forthcoming book “Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic.” In 1957, 92 percent of American children were potty-trained by 18 ...

Rosa Busquets receives funding from UKRI/Horizons (CleanWater project 101131182) and DASA (UK). She is honorary academic at UCL and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Marcel Jansen receives funding ...

The latest UN plastics treaty collapse underscored what markets already know: a $400 billion stranded asset risk that forward-thinking petrochemical leaders must now confront strategically. While ...

Talks to finalize the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland collapsed in failure Friday as countries remained bitterly divided how to tackle the crisis. The summit, held at ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough evidence to say whether this is doing us harm, experts have said. These mostly ...

I used plastic food containers for most of my life — they’re affordable and accessible at most of the grocery stores I frequent. But, in recent years I’ve learned more about the potential dangers ...

Shoppers in the U.S. and Canada are walking away from purchases in stores over worries about unsustainable packaging and concerns about plastics, according to a new survey. The research, conducted by ...